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So I finally got the 'Vids which sequenced out to be Omicron.
Actually roughly 30%+ of my medical staff has it which is insane. Our entire section (aka anatomic pathology) is down.
Good News:
Omicron is indeed relatively minor if you have been vaccinated and boosted. Omicron is far easier able to penetrate Pfizer and J&J and Moderna offers by far the best protection so its sad the medical staff typically has Pfizer.
No respiratory symptoms aside from minor chest heaviness if you are vaccinated and boosted.
Headaches make you think you actually have a hangover not a respiratory virus.
Fatigue is fairly minor depending on how solid your baseline physical shape is.
THE BAD NEWS:
Preference this Im not coming at this from any sort of political slant, this is purely my journaling of my own illness where I was able to mobilize my own labs and a science staff to run PCR and blood work on me several times.
My Ct value began 22 and after roughly 24 hours it rose all the way to 32.3. Day 2 I felt literally great because I actually slept for 14 hours. I'm bench pressing more than I normally 1 RPM (255) and I convince myself COVID has actually made me stronger.
Day 3 I felt slightly worse, my Ct value now goes to down to 28. I begin having increasing difficulty falling asleep and staying asleep occasionally being woken up by a cough but mostly by increasingly bizarre thoughts.
Day 4 my Ct actually revisits 22 again...uh oh..my blood work is normal aside from increased RDW..I get a tad more worried. I contemplate doing a bone marrow on myself out of interest but then realize that is insane when another physician in my lab starts trying to talk me down and get me to go home.
Day 5 my Ct rises again to 28 but I am getting more frequent headaches and my thoughts are getting even more confused.
I wake up on Day 6 at 3am and actually thought it was good idea to ask a colleague to preform a brain biopsy on me because I was having word finding difficulty. I go back to bed later waking up and thinking I could becoming schizophrenic. My Ct value remains at 28.
Day 7 Im getting very tired because Im not getting restful sleep at all now and I have my first panic attack at 6am. A panic attack about essentially nothing, Im still feeling around 90% of my baseline athletic capability aside from fatigue. My Ct is now back down to 22....wth! I take a verbal online SAT test, I score significantly lower than when I was in high school. I take another online test, this time an IQ test and my IQ is now close to normal range! The horror! I have a second more extensive panic attack when this sinks in.
Day 8 I wake up at 2am having a panic attack that my IQ maybe permanently reduced by COVID and cant go back to sleep. I think it is a good idea to get in my car and drive for 4 straight hours. I pass out in a hotel room in a city about 150 miles from where I normally reside. I wake up and have no clue where I am. I drive back and my Ct value is now 22....another panic attack ensues. I send out text messages to my lab employees only to get a call from the supervisor to stop texting because the messages dont make sense. I reread my text messages and agree they are nonsense but seemed to make sense at the time I sent them.
Day 9 I wake up and have the biggest domestic fight ever with my spouse, essentially out of nowhere. Im lucky LE doesnt get involved it was that crazy. I demand a divorce, accuse her of hiding funds, affairs, my kids being fathered by someone else and even plotting to poison my food (almost paranoid schizophrenic levels). RDW is still elevated, Ct value is 25. I try to sleep.
Day 10 my Ct value is now 33, I feel better but not 100%. I take my absurd ABP certlink exam and score MASSIVELY lower than I normally do, like 75% when I normally are at 95-100% on those. I try to read about 20 biopsy cases and it seemed to take me twice as long as normal. I have to tell everyone Im not reading slides until I am 100% mentally.
Simple Question: Will the real long term effect on the human population from SARS-CoV-2 be neurologic and not pulmonary??
Actually roughly 30%+ of my medical staff has it which is insane. Our entire section (aka anatomic pathology) is down.
Good News:
Omicron is indeed relatively minor if you have been vaccinated and boosted. Omicron is far easier able to penetrate Pfizer and J&J and Moderna offers by far the best protection so its sad the medical staff typically has Pfizer.
No respiratory symptoms aside from minor chest heaviness if you are vaccinated and boosted.
Headaches make you think you actually have a hangover not a respiratory virus.
Fatigue is fairly minor depending on how solid your baseline physical shape is.
THE BAD NEWS:
Preference this Im not coming at this from any sort of political slant, this is purely my journaling of my own illness where I was able to mobilize my own labs and a science staff to run PCR and blood work on me several times.
My Ct value began 22 and after roughly 24 hours it rose all the way to 32.3. Day 2 I felt literally great because I actually slept for 14 hours. I'm bench pressing more than I normally 1 RPM (255) and I convince myself COVID has actually made me stronger.
Day 3 I felt slightly worse, my Ct value now goes to down to 28. I begin having increasing difficulty falling asleep and staying asleep occasionally being woken up by a cough but mostly by increasingly bizarre thoughts.
Day 4 my Ct actually revisits 22 again...uh oh..my blood work is normal aside from increased RDW..I get a tad more worried. I contemplate doing a bone marrow on myself out of interest but then realize that is insane when another physician in my lab starts trying to talk me down and get me to go home.
Day 5 my Ct rises again to 28 but I am getting more frequent headaches and my thoughts are getting even more confused.
I wake up on Day 6 at 3am and actually thought it was good idea to ask a colleague to preform a brain biopsy on me because I was having word finding difficulty. I go back to bed later waking up and thinking I could becoming schizophrenic. My Ct value remains at 28.
Day 7 Im getting very tired because Im not getting restful sleep at all now and I have my first panic attack at 6am. A panic attack about essentially nothing, Im still feeling around 90% of my baseline athletic capability aside from fatigue. My Ct is now back down to 22....wth! I take a verbal online SAT test, I score significantly lower than when I was in high school. I take another online test, this time an IQ test and my IQ is now close to normal range! The horror! I have a second more extensive panic attack when this sinks in.
Day 8 I wake up at 2am having a panic attack that my IQ maybe permanently reduced by COVID and cant go back to sleep. I think it is a good idea to get in my car and drive for 4 straight hours. I pass out in a hotel room in a city about 150 miles from where I normally reside. I wake up and have no clue where I am. I drive back and my Ct value is now 22....another panic attack ensues. I send out text messages to my lab employees only to get a call from the supervisor to stop texting because the messages dont make sense. I reread my text messages and agree they are nonsense but seemed to make sense at the time I sent them.
Day 9 I wake up and have the biggest domestic fight ever with my spouse, essentially out of nowhere. Im lucky LE doesnt get involved it was that crazy. I demand a divorce, accuse her of hiding funds, affairs, my kids being fathered by someone else and even plotting to poison my food (almost paranoid schizophrenic levels). RDW is still elevated, Ct value is 25. I try to sleep.
Day 10 my Ct value is now 33, I feel better but not 100%. I take my absurd ABP certlink exam and score MASSIVELY lower than I normally do, like 75% when I normally are at 95-100% on those. I try to read about 20 biopsy cases and it seemed to take me twice as long as normal. I have to tell everyone Im not reading slides until I am 100% mentally.
Simple Question: Will the real long term effect on the human population from SARS-CoV-2 be neurologic and not pulmonary??
